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title: “Never have I offered to give you a prize;” and her gaunt form and g… — The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North · tree and pragmatics
description: “Never have I offered to give you a prize;” and her gaunt form and gruesome features seemed truly terrible in their ugliness. Who acts: Mistress, gaunt form, reward. A sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Forging of the Sampo, sentence 93

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“Never have I offered to give you a prize;” and her gaunt form and gruesome features seemed truly terrible in their ugliness.

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**Who acts:** Mistress, gaunt form, reward · **What happens:** offer, give, seem, form · **To what, where:** prize, you

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This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Forging of the Sampo. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mistress, gaunt form, reward), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66819:11:93
# text = “Never have I offered to give you a prize;” and her gaunt form and gruesome features seemed truly terrible in their ugliness.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	gruesome	gruesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Mistress *= mistress* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Mistress *= mistress* *not said here* | a prize | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient prize=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | past | reward's gaunt form and gruesome features |  |  |  |  | terrible *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **form** |  | reward |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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